I did a Sweet 16 bracket elimination contest for regional IPAs a few years back just to force myself to identify the ‘good’ ones and eliminate bad ones. Even after doing that, I do a little dance any time there’s something else available.
I don’t understand the point of this device. Why not buy a replacement radio for the car instead? I bought a Pioneer one and it was a nice upgrade to my 2012 Mazda3 since I can plug in my phone to use Android Auto and get the screen to show Google Maps + pretty much any music app on my phone.
There’s plenty of 2010-2015ish cars with dogshit radios that are hard to find, expensive to get or literally impossible to find good replacements for, thanks to vehicle manufacturers killing of the DIN system.
Because buying a double DIN or even a single DIN radio can require buying a replacement bezel, disassembling your dash and often your center console as well, wiring in a steering wheel media control adapter, correctly wiring in the stereo, and having the knowledge to make adjustments when things don’t quite fit or go right.
“[just] buy a replacement radio” is not how it works at all.
Best Buy does this all for you for $80, assuming the person is in the US. I expect this is available most places for similar prices though. You can get anything from a BT only unit for $20 online to a much nicer unit with Android Auto/iOS’s thing. While the initial cost might be higher the opportunity cost of your thing being disabled is almost certainly much higher, as this thread’s existence seems to support. $150-$200 well worth it in the long run to do a head unit upgrade.
And then after I spend over $100 on a decent stereo, $50 for an adapter for my car, and the $80 to have some kid install it for me I’ll be $250 in the hole and still paying for a Spotify subscription so I can listen to music that’s not shit. Or for $100 I could buy a cheap ass tablet and shove it into my air vent.
Oh yeah, you nailed it. Clearly worked for the OP… I also didn’t put a value on said opportunity cost. Perhaps it’s greater than $250 depending on the individual. Subjective as opportunity cost can sometimes be. Not trying to ascertain or consider it is at best just short sighted, or perhaps at worst ignorant. Cheap junk, effectively rented according to the EULA, subject to the whims of the rights holders, is never the way.
I did it all by myself with no experience - wired up the wiring harness properly, installed the bezel, connected some sort of adapter so the car alert tones and steering wheel controls still work, etc. I bought the radio from Crutchfield who have lifetime phone support to assist with any issues (I didn’t need it though). I just followed the instructions they provided.
Car radios have become much more entrenched. My 13 Fusion has an external amp. Shit, my 96 Taurus did too. Plus if you have any phone, steering wheel, or other peripheral integration, you often lose those features. OP probably has integrated hvac buttons. Sometimes you can get adapters, sometimes the signals are buried in canbus lines
My 2012 Mazda3 has an external amp under the front passenger seat. I bought my Pioneer radio from Crutchfield and they included an adapter to make everything work. The amp works fine (most radios have a preamp output for this purpose), and the steering wheel controls work fine too.
My car just had a basic radio though. I guess it might be harder in newer cars with fancier radios. People that mount their phone or use things like this Spotify… thing usually have older cars/radios though. The newer ones just have Android Auto and Apple Carplay built in.
No need to sail them seas, but maybe still use a vpn, just on case. Fun fact i heard from a friend of a friend: Youtube starts rate limiting after 50,000 audio-only video downloads, until you have a new IP.
I’ve also noticed that sometimes it downloads the wrong versions of songs. While my Spotify playlist has the album version of a song, it might sometimes download a live performance audio or a reprise version.
I have hundreds upon hundreds of songs in my Spotify music library. Downloading them one by one sounds like hell. And then I wouldn’t be discovering new music either.
No but direct downloads are all the rage. Here are my two favorite sites for free music. Every track is available in either 320k MP3, or FLAC lossless. So they’re even better than Limewire ever was:
I’ve been pretty happy with YouTube music. I got legacied in due to Google Music shutting down and thought I would hate it, but I’ve had zero complaints. Plus, it comes with free YouTube Premium, so I haven’t seen an ad in years.
I have so many complaints, Google Play music was fine. It did exactly what I wanted it to.
YouTube music is like an alien looked at that app, and tried to recreate it exclusively by smashing it’s forehead against a keyboard until an app that started most of the time came out.
I would actually argue that Google Play Music was the best music streaming app that I’ve used. It was great being able to upload music from CDs of small local bands and have it right in there with the other streaming music.
Just today I had a hankering to listen to a specific song through my android auto, and instead of just being able to verbally ask the unit for that song, or even being able to search through the atrocity that is the YouTube Music interface on my head unit, I had to pull over, pull out my phone, search for the band, then click the uploads tab (because uploaded music does not show with the regular search results) and then click the song to get it to play.
It’s not optimal, and I would like for uploaded music to just show up in the regular search, but there is a top navigation bar where you can just switch between where to search (uploads being one of the options). Also YTM has the upside of showing YouTube uploads as well, I could always find obscure bonus EPs that only came with the physical CD because someone uploaded it, which is really handy
Yes and the glorious “playing near you” feature of Play Music. That made the best recommendations for local shows, and I mean local, within a few miles, not just bands I’d listened to but always relevant and often small shows! That feature, I found several new bands I liked that way and good live music. YouTube has nothing like that. Also interface not as intuitive, more cluttered. My kids like it better because they do like having the videos available, but as I do not give a fuck about that but do like live music this is still not as good as the Play Music.
YouTube music is like an alien looked at that app, and tried to recreate it exclusively by smashing it’s forehead against a keyboard until an app that started most of the time came out.
You think they that much care and attention into the app?
But seriously, yeah, I had pretty much the same experience -Google Play Music just worked beautifully, whereas YouTube Music was a steaming turd on Android. I gave up after six months and two phones and went to Deezer, never looked back
I would say the same myself. They don’t do the worst job for music discovery either which is important to me. Amazon Music drove me nuts constantly recommending Cage the Elephant and other well-known (profitable) artists instead of obscure music similar to my tastes.
Same. Honestly, I expected YTM to make things worse. That’s usually how those kinda things go. But it actually did get better for me. I jumped to Google Play Music because it had better selection than Spotify (at least back then). YTM kept that, but fixed the issues I was having with the desktop browser player sometimes getting stuck. And the more recent support for lyrics that are synced to the music is great.
Their queueing system sucks. All I want to do is queue up some songs but instead YTM fills my queue with tons of crap I’ve never listened to before because that’s how they make money. They put my manually queued songs at the END of the queue so I have to move them up 20+ spaces. There’s literally no way to do it other than creating a custom playlist every time I listen to music, and they intentionally made that take more clicks/taps than queuing. I don’t get how people are ok with the YTM app, it’s terrible.
I hate YTM and I hate that I can’t cancel it because they bundle it with YouTube premium, which my partner uses every day. Screw Google and they anti-consumer manipulative bs.
Their queueing system sucks. All I want to do is queue up some songs but instead YTM fills my queue with tons of crap I’ve never listened to before because that’s how they make money. They put my manually queued songs at the END of the queue so I have to move them up 20+ spaces. There’s literally no way to do it other than creating a custom playlist every time I listen to music, and they intentionally made that take more clicks/taps than queuing. I don’t get how people are ok with the YTM app, it’s terrible.
wrong.
you can disable automatic queuing by hitting the ‘auto-play’ switch in UP NEXT
you can queue songs by long-pressing and hitting ‘play next’ (which will put it in front of the queue) or ‘add to queue’ (which will put it in my the end
No, I’m not wrong. Option 1 does not exist on my phone. There is no switch.
And the “play next” feature also sucks. I don’t want to “play next”. I want to build a queue like literally any other music app and that isn’t what “play next” does.
Edit: I don’t see that “auto-play” switch on the web app in Safari either.
No. I’m not wrong, and I don’t appreciate you repeatedly telling me I am when you obviously have no clue what I’m looking at.
It isn’t there. I’m on Android 13 with the latest version of the app. There is no “auto-play” toggle anywhere. I’d upload screenshots to prove it but lemmy is throwing exceptions. I’ve checked every tab and settings page as well.
So I finally figured it out. this is how that toggle works:
it only appears when you manually search for a song or select a song from certain groups on the home page.
it does not appear to appear if you select a song from “listen again” or “quick picks” in which case the app forces you to listen to whatever is in their queue unless you manually clear the queue.
oh yeah, you are right-ish. it doesn’t show up if you launch a “radio”, which innately is a automatic, end-less playlist of similar music. I do agree though that this should be more visible in the UI
I have been reliably informed that X is going to give it to you, that they're tired of waiting for you to get it on your own, and that X is going to deliver to you.
From this angle it seems to resemble barrel chest which would be an early sign of emphysema but others are saying HGH. It may just be the way he is built and a mixture of overweight though.
I think this is what happens when you just keep asking plastic surgeons if they can remove your entire belly fat without doing anything else to your body until you find a doctor who doesn’t tell you that the result will look like shit.
You literally can’t buy them anymore! Spotify quietly canned the project. Support pages are still up but I can’t find a purchase option anywhere.
I bought one pretty early into launch and even then they were already heavily discounted. It was a weird choice for a peripheral, but personally I really wish they had tried a bit harder instead of giving up outright
They never even came over to the uk and I really wanted one. Nobody else makes anything like it either. I don’t know why they canned it, I’ve only ever seen praise for it on YouTube and the like
Sometimes you don’t want to use your phone for everything. Plus car thing to me seemed much more interesting outside of the car. Like to use as a media control panel in the kitchen etc.
There’s a niche. I’ve only ever driven older cars with less than stellar stereo setups for phone play. The idea is getting a small-footprint and quick to navigate stereo interface without actually having to replace whole ass stereo, and I find it pretty appealing!
For me the problem was connectivity. I assumed the car thing would act as a go-between for my phone and stereo, and it would remain always connected to the car audio system. Instead it’s just another thing you’re connecting to. It actually slowed me down significantly more than it helped.
If it could send/receive audio and just used your phone as a source, that’d be ideal for me. Like a suped up bluetooth receiver with spotify connectivity.
Yeah, becoming unacceptable is a good way to open yourself up to violence, abuse and corruption of the legal system itself just to get rid of you. Becoming unacceptable opens yourself up to getting killed for no good reason. The people around you have the power to collectively decide you need to go, and to remove you, at any time and for any reason, and they will subvert their own laws to do it… remember the lockdowns if you don’t believe me.
I don’t care if it’s hypocritical of me to say. It’s the truth. People are no-good monsters to be feared specifically for that reason.
Yeah I remember when right wing assholes showed their true colors and refused to do the bare minimum like wear masks like the rest of us so in order to reduce the spread local government had to put in place common sense restrictions.
Conspiracy clowns who are afraid of a vaccine that’s already in millions of arms.
You’re not a hypocrite, just a sucker. You can fool some of the ppl all of the time and those ppl are usually right wing Americans.
And I remember when left-wing assholes showed their true colors when they forced their families to stay isolated from each other, destroying everyone’s mental health, causing developmental delays in children, causing suicide, murder and domestic violence rates to skyrocket; completely fucking ignoring and dismissing the ADA and HIPAA; imprisoning people in their houses for years on end; cheering when people who opposed them died of covid; blatant mass censorship of their cruelty; massive police crackdowns where entire populations who protested were beaten down and the left cheered for the exact same cops and evil cop behavior they claim to hate; how the stupid fucking Australian government used the lockdowns as an excuse to empty out entire towns of Aborigine peoples to throw them in literal concentration camps out by Darwin while the left claims to care about racism; the complete lack of respect for human rights; and in general showing that the left is nothing but a bunch of emotional hypocrites just as the right frames them to be.
I remember the lockdowns well.
And dumbass people on the left think they can pretend none of it ever happened, but you can’t. The lockdowns’ effects are everywhere: the inflation spike we’ve all seen, the trillions of dollars corporations stole that would never have been possible without the lockdowns – trillions corporations are using to buy up all the houses and land imposing a new feudalism on the American people and denying them their right to home ownership, the deaths of despair that are still high and still happening, how schoolkids lost on average a third of a school year of learning and how kids born during covid are struggling to catch up.
And most importantly, how the dumb fuck left enabled the rise of the fucking alt-right into mainstream politics, justifying the right by supporting and defending something so insane, and now when you see Nazis marching down your streets and they laugh at, make fun of and dismiss you when you call them out on it. Who would take seriously your moral claims after you’ve done something so monstrous?
Honestly. You’re fucking horrific monsters. And you wonder why dumb fuck centrists call you out for being just as bad as the right. 🤦
Thanks for proving my point, though. Only if humanity really was mostly monstrous would your only refutation be about the lockdowns – and you defending monstrous behavior – instead of addressing my main claims in any real meaningful way.
You know you did wrong and you just don’t want to feel bad about it.
You know you can’t use your fear of death to justify atrocities, right? Isn’t that what you believe, that some things are wrong regardless of the outcome? Isn’t that you tell rape victims when they demand justice or revenge when your system refuses to do anything about their attackers, or domestic violence victims when you imprison them for killing their abusers? You know, the same crimes you enabled and sent soaring through the roof because of your actions?
You think those dead victims benefitted from the lockdowns? You think their lives were a suitable sacrifice for yours? You think the right wing is going to take you seriously when you talk about life or death or justice, knowing what you did? You think they aren’t emboldened enough now after protesting you to kill millions of us? You think you didn’t just cause more to die in more obscene and brutal ways because you chose selfishness over righteousness? You think you have the right to subvert everything and everyone just to save yourself?
You really think that’s how morality works? Because let me tell you, it doesn’t.
You know that some people on the left also opposed the lockdowns and that it’s not and wasn’t all right wingers, don’t you? r/lockdowncriticalleft ring a bell?
Or do you think you can weasel your way out of taking responsibility for serious moral crimes against humanity as a whole with blatant shit smearing?
You understand what you did is wrong regardless of who is telling you, right? Even if I was some Trumptard dipshit, I would still be right, because the litany of horrific shit you pulled for the first two years of this decade is still wrong on its face. If it was them doing it, you’d have gone to war and attempted to overthrow the government over it.
Nice job proving that most humans are shit, though. That’s absolutely a move a shit human would pull.
Oh cool, so you are just slinging false accusations and alienating people who might be an ally, but because you have a grievance with people who aren’t ideologically lock step with you are they are somehow the scum of the earth.
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